ripoff doesn't load any plugins

[David Fraser]

As of upgrading 14.04 I've had a problem with RipOff (i.e. 0.8.3). I get

"No valid RipOff encoding plugin could be found"

Under Preferences/Plugins the list of plugins is empty. The Preferences and About buttons under the empty plugin list are greyed out

I ran ripoff under strace and noted that it searches /usr/lib/ripoff/plugins and reads the first block of each file, but doesn't seem to attempt to load the files.

(As a separate issue, ripoff-mp3-plugin puts its plugin at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ripoff/plugins/liblame.so and that directory is not searched; symlinking liblame.so from /usr/lib/ripoff/plugins doesn't get it loaded though)

dpkg -l '*ripoff*'
ii libripoff0 0.8.3-0ubuntu7 i386 The ripoff library
ii ripoff 0.8.3-0ubuntu7 i386 modular and intuitive GTK+-based CD-ripper
ii ripoff-mp3-plugin 1.1-0ubuntu5 i386 MP3 plugin for ripoff

dpkg -L ripoff | grep plugins
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libwav.so
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libvorbis.so
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libflac.so

See http://askubuntu.com/questions/517603/ripoff-0-8-3-not-finding-any-plugins for someone else with the same problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.